HIPAA - Understanding the Requirements and How To Address Them

Over the past several years, the methods by which health care organizations manage information have changed. Federal and State regulations have introduced provisions to ensure record keeping moves to an electronic medium. This change to electronic storage allows for more portable information to be easily shared between health care entities. Consequently, this ease of access also requires security improvements to ensure data is not improperly available or inadvertently or purposely modified by unauthorized parties. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (as amended) (HIPAA) has imposed heightened security requirements on health care organizations and their related entities that maintain health care records. In this Technical Brief, Virtela reviews how these requirements can impact the management of an organizations network security.

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